The industrial scale of US and UK government-backed internet surveillance has sent shock waves around the world. American whistle blower Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) not only targeted universities in Hong Kong but also the mobile phone messaging of millions of mainland Chinese citizens. Recent reports by the German magazine Der Spiegel suggest that the NSA also spied on key institutions of the European Union and logged the meta data of more than half a billion telephone calls, emails and SMS in Germany every month. The leaks by Edward Snowden also revealed that NSA and the British GCHQ have granted each other access to such intelligence findings.
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